Wednesday marked National Hot Dog Day, an annual occassion that honors the edible wiener's history.
Hot dogs' origins date back to 1901, during a baseball game at the New York Polo Grounds. Vendors retrieved sausages from mobile tanks containing hot water.
"They're red hot! Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot!" proclaimed one journalist covering the event at the time, as written on the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council's website.
Los Angeles residents consume the most frankfurters out of any other U.S. city, at 40 million to date, according to the council. New York comes in at close second, while Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco round out the list.
Travelers and employees at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport eat 725,000 total hot dogs - six times more wieners than Los Angeles International Airport and LaGuardia Airport combined.
Sales-wise, 2013 data shows New Yorkers expended $126 million more on hot dogs out of all other markets in the country. Los Angeles ranked a narrow second at $93.5 million.
The wiener's busiest time falls between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Vendors estimate revenue from hot dog sales total $614 million during this period, known as "Hot Dog Season." This equates to 10 percent of purchases customers make in July - or the four weeks known as "National Hot Dog Month."
Several businesses are offering special deals for the sausage's annual day of remembrance.
According to livingrichwithcoupons.com, Sonic has all-American hot dogs and six-inch chilli cheese Coney frankfurters for $1.
7-Eleven offered an eighth-of-a-pound "Big Bite" dog for consumers who downloaded the chain's app and digital coupon.
Consumers residing in one of America's 13 Southeastern markets can buy a .25 cent Ballpark Hot Dog at Kangaroo Express from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sausages are free for soldiers with military I.D.s.
